Word: religion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...election itself, but we do feel called upon to censure as severely as we may the culpable failure of one of the most important elections yet given into the hands of the students. It is a disgrace that students who feel competent to discriminate in matters of religion are unable to act in a responsible matter in a mere case of gentlemanly conduct. It is a disgrace that Harvard students, when called upon to vote as a body upon a matter of moment to the whole university, not only fail to respond to the call, but even allow themselves...
...students than evening celebrations, as our contemporary the Clarion complains? The liberality shown in the plan by which each leading denomination will be represented is worthy of more general observance, even among critics. The plan may not provoke a revival, but it will certainly strengthen a healthy spirit of religion. We wish the plan all success...
...most liberal university of America, - while Dr. Peabody, the patron saint of the Christian Brethren, still lives in our midst. In closing, it may not be out of place to quote from one whom Matthew Arnold calls "Henry More, that beautiful spirit." He writes thus: "A little religion may make a man schismatical, but a great deal will surely make a man decline division when things are tolerable...
Charles Edward Grinnell, '62. 1. "Attendance at morning prayers should be voluntary. This is according to a sound elective system, to a true morality, and to honesty in religion. 2. It should be possible to enter college without the knowledge of Greek...
...revival" we must give the common newspaper meaning. Still on the part of many members of the college greater interest in matters of a religious character has been awakened, and with it has come a desire to give religious subjects a fair and candid consideration. The question of religion is a question that every man must decide for himself. Indifference to it, as to the important questions of the day, is inconsistent with the requirements of a liberal education. That Harvard is waking from this indifference, which so many of those who have never been in Cambridge, especially the editors...